Category Tbilisi Biennial of Scenography

The
Regional Forum of Young Performing and Visual Artists included two
lecture-master classes and two round table discussions led by international
experts.

During
the round table, the participants from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine
and Russia were able to share their experiences and brainstorm on the problems that
are similar all over the region, and discuss the opportunities of the large-scale
international projects and events.

Participants
from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine and Russia held mini-presentations
on the specific issues of contemporary art, stage design and production.

Tbilisi
Biennale of Stage Design was initiated by the Valerian Gunia Union of Young
Theatre Artists – the OISTAT National Center of Georgia in 2016.

The Biennale
aims to build conditions for professional development of young stage designers
and for intercultural dialogue.

The Biennale
is a unique platform created for young scenographers and enabling them to
present themselves and their projects; to review and assess the process ongoing
in this field of art, to share their creative ideas, to arrange professional
discussions, to plan and develop joint projects.

Tbilisi
Biennale included an international exhibition and the educational program Masters’
Lab.

Regional
Forum of Young Performing and Visual Artists was an associated event held
within the framework of the Biennale.

On 11-18 October 2018, the Second Edition of Tbilisi Biennale of Stage Design will be held by Valerian Gunia Union of Young Theatre Artists – the OISTAT National Centre of Georgia.

Georgia will host young scenographers and artists from Canada, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia and Hungary. The Biennale consists of two main parts: International Exhibition and Masters’ Lab.

Two Georgian expositions will be presented at the International Exhibition – a Youth Pavilion and Gogi Meskhishvili’s School of Design.

Within the framework of Masters’ Lab, the Biennale’s educational programme, international experts will deliver lectures and master classes in the fields of scenography, curating, sound and light design in post-dramatic theatre, video and multimedia art and visual engineering...

The Tbilisi International Biennale of Stage Design was initiated by the Valerian Gunia Union of Young Theatre Artists – the OISTAT National Center of Georgia, in 2016.
The Biennale aims to create conditions for professional development of young stage designers and for intercultural dialogue.
The Biennale is a unique platform which is designed for young scenographers to present themselves and their implemented projects; to review and assess the process ongoing in this art, to share their creative ideas, to arrange professional discussions, planning and development of joint projects.
The Tbilisi Biennale includes: exhibition and review of works of participants; roundtables, mini-presentations on the specific problems of contemporary art, stage design and production as well as t...

The development of scenographic thinking which corresponds to the transformation of theater is the ability to be contemporary, unique but also sincere in being oneself, understandable, in finding timeless themes and images for artistic approach…
The new cultural context – the opening of borders, freedom of mobility on the one hand, and the struggle for preserving unique and individual self-expression on the other forms a new approach. Namely:
• Modernizing the idea of borders (real and imaginary, moving, changing);
• Understanding how these borders affect the space (free and occupied, internal and external, personal and collective);
• Searching for new ways of expressing one’s identity in the context of contrasting the constantly changing local and global – in the wo...

Project goals:
• Integration into the European cultural space through the establishment of an international event – the Tbilisi Biennial of Scenography and regional development of OISTAT’s international professional network;
Objectives:
1. Promotion of the development of the modern art space in the Caucasus by conducting the interdisciplinary international forum “Tbilisi Biennial of Scenography” and founding a new professional festival in the international cultural festival map.
2. Development and expansion of the OISTAT’s international professional network and formation of the Black Sea scenography curators network for the entrenchment of the European qualification, quality and values in the region. Modern theater transformation research...